Patents Examined by Farhad Ali
  • Patent number: 10892928
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a resource block set that includes a data region and a control region, wherein the resource block set spans a portion of a system bandwidth in a shortened transmission time interval (sTTI), wherein the sTTI includes three symbols, wherein the control region occupies the three symbols and includes control information for the UE for the sTTI, and wherein the control region and the data region are frequency division multiplexed. The UE may obtain content in the sTTI based at least in part on the control information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Seyedkianoush Hosseini, Shimman Arvind Patel, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 10873536
    Abstract: A distribution node for an automation network comprises at least two input/output interfaces for transmitting and receiving real-time-relevant and non-real-time-relevant data packets, and a switching device connected to the input/output interfaces. The switching device forwards data packets received via an input/output interface via a further input/output interface using a switching table, where the switching table contains at least a data packet identifier and a transmission time in a data transfer cycle for each real-time-relevant data packet. Inter alia, the switching device can detect a data packet identifier on reception of a real-time-relevant data packet, and output the real-time-relevant data packet at the transmission time allocated to the detected data packet identifier in the switching table via an input/output interface as a transmission interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Beckhoff Automation GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Bunte, Holger Büttner, Erik Vonnahme, Dirk Janssen, Thomas Rettig, Hans Beckhoff
  • Patent number: 10841867
    Abstract: It is described a network connection method and a user equipment. The method includes that a two-dimensional code is scanned to obtain a character string corresponding to the two-dimensional code; when the character string does not comprise a preset character string, it is determined that the two-dimensional code is a secure two-dimensional code, and two-dimensional code information is obtained according to the character string; the two-dimensional code information is decoded, to obtain data of a target access point; a configuration description file is obtained according to the data of the target access point, the configuration description file being used to connect to the target access point; and the configuration description file is installed into the user equipment, and after detecting the target access point, the target access point is connected to according to the configuration description file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Haifeng Ding, Hanyun Liang
  • Patent number: 10827540
    Abstract: Identification information for identifying a device is obtained from the device, and processing is executed such that where the obtained identification information and access point information related to an access point the communication apparatus is already connected satisfy a predetermined condition a communication apparatus is not connected to the device by a first connection method where the communication apparatus is directly connected to the device on a peer-to-peer basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Konji
  • Patent number: 10826831
    Abstract: A method including receiving, at a first router of a plurality of routers, a first message from the plurality of routers. The first message includes a designated router priority and a weight for each respective router. Based on the designated router priorities, a designated router is elected and a one or more eligible group designated routers are determined. The method determines whether the first router is the designated router or the at least one eligible group designated router. If the first router is the designated router, the first router provides a second message to the remaining routers indicating the eligible group designated routers and their weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Mankamana Mishra, Jayashree Subramanian, Stig Venaas, Nitin Kumar
  • Patent number: 10827491
    Abstract: Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes receiving from a base station an indication of a set of one or more uplink interlaces of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band allocated for a sounding reference signal, and transmitting the sounding reference signal for a user equipment (UE) over the indicated set of one or more uplink interlaces of the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band. A second method includes receiving an indication of an interlace of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band allocated for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission, and transmitting a scheduling request and a buffer status report over the indicated interlace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Srinivas Yerramalli, Tao Luo, Durga Prasad Malladi, Naga Bhushan, Yongbin Wei, Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Shimman Arvind Patel, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Patent number: 10820220
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in a mobile device telemetry system is disclosed. The method and apparatus relate to aspects in a mobile device protocol health monitoring system. The method and apparatus provide a system to monitor and assess protocol health, log protocol health data and communicate the logs of protocol health data to a remote system. The system may also take corrective actions based upon specific indications of protocol health. The method and apparatus also provides protocol health indications and corrective actions based upon monitoring the message transmission rate. The method and apparatus also provides protocol health indications and corrective actions based upon monitoring for a line disconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Anthonios Partheniou, Paul Philip Ciolek
  • Patent number: 10812400
    Abstract: A method for configuring an adaptable circuit breaker chain in a microservices architecture includes transmitting a request from an upstream service to a target one of the services and receiving in a circuit breaker of the upstream service a response from a circuit breaker of the target indicating an inability to provide a response to the transmitted request and including meta-data describing an attempt by the circuit breaker of the target to receive a response from the downstream service to an underlying request of the target necessary to provide a response to the request transmitted by the upstream service. Finally, on condition that the meta-data indicates a delay by the circuit breaker of the target incurred in receiving a response to the underlying request, the method includes changing a pattern of delay imposed by the circuit breaker of the upstream service from a default pattern of delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Edwards, Martin Ross
  • Patent number: 10812368
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for controlling a network traffic path. The method includes: receiving routing advertisement information from a first network to a second network; determining all routing nodes included in a path through which data pass when flowing from the second network to the first network according to the routing advertisement information; and configuring a next hop routing node for each determined routing node, where the next hop routing node is a node in all the routing nodes included in the path and is adjacent to the routing node for which the next hop routing node is configured, and the routing node for which the next hop routing node is configured does not include a routing node of the first network or a routing node of the second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunwan Zhuang, Changjiang Yan, Fengqing Yu, Fei Chen, Lili Wang, Yuanbin Ouyang
  • Patent number: 10805814
    Abstract: The present invention provides a signal measurement method and apparatus, where the method includes: receiving, by user equipment UE, a measurement configuration message sent by a base station, where the measurement configuration message is used to indicate a reference signal type; performing, by the UE according to the reference signal type indicated by the measurement configuration message, signal quality measurement on a cell to obtain a measurement result; and sending, by the UE, the measurement result to the base station. The method provided in embodiments of the present invention is used to resolve a technical problem in the prior art that normal communication of UE cannot be ensured because RSRP and/or RSRQ of neighboring cells cannot be measured based on an existing reference signal when the neighboring cells use different carrier types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingwei Zhang, Chao Li, Qiang Li, Yuan Xia
  • Patent number: 10790916
    Abstract: A wireless communication unit (100) is described that comprises: at least one receiver configured to receive a radio frequency signal on at least one receiver channel (262, 264, 266, 268) and comprising a plurality of receiver circuits; at least one interference detection circuit (244, 248, 252) coupled to an output of at least one of the plurality of receiver circuits and configured to detect a saturation event of a signal output from the at least one of the plurality of receiver circuits; and a controller (114) configured to identify interference in a received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Gustavo Guarin Aristizabal, Arnaud Sion, Ralf Reuter, Marcel Welpot
  • Patent number: 10783498
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for data management whereby a data management application manages data across a managed service environment, a mail server environment, and a client environment. The present invention allows a customer to optimize data management functions such as archiving, recovering, monitoring, authenticating, synchronizing, transferring, copying, stubbing, chunking, harvesting, and securing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: MESSAGEONE, LLC
    Inventors: Samy M. Aboel-Nil, Dane O. Knecht, Igor Postelnik, Scott B. Kovner
  • Patent number: 10785774
    Abstract: A base station receiving uplink data transmitted from mobile terminals of first type and mobile terminals of second type over a radio interface using plural sub-carriers. The mobile terminals of first type transmit uplink data on a first group of the sub-carriers over a first bandwidth and the mobile terminals of second type transmit uplink data on a second group of the sub-carriers within the first group of sub-carriers over a second bandwidth that is smaller than the first bandwidth. The base station is configured to grant uplink radio resources in response to random access request messages transmitted by mobile terminals of first type transmitted on a first random access channel and to grant uplink radio resources in response to random access request messages transmitted by mobile terminals of second type transmitted on a second random access channel, which are transmitted on sub-carriers within the second group of sub-carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC
    Inventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
  • Patent number: 10757195
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for allowing network enabled devices to interconnect via auto-discovery and manual discovery. The interconnections are made via a communication cloud, which is a resource on a server that acts as a transmission channel between authorized devices. The protocol includes a Communication Cloud Assignment that defines a process for designating a device to a cloud. Once a device is connected to a cloud, it uses a Service Discovery/Delivery Protocol to request and/or advertise its services to other devices on the cloud. Devices with appropriate criteria such as the same IP address, subnet, service protocol etc. will be placed on the same cloud; thus, those devices will automatically discover each other and their services. A device may be manually directed from its originating cloud to another cloud when a special code is entered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, SONY DADC US INC
    Inventor: Aekkarin Rojvongpaisal
  • Patent number: 10750558
    Abstract: One feature provides a method operational on a neighboring device for downlink transmission assistance for a target device. The neighboring device monitors a shared asynchronous first channel for broadcast transmissions from a serving access point. The neighboring device also determines if a received first transmission over the shared asynchronous first channel is intended for the target device. For instance, the received first transmission may be captured and decoded. After an expiration of a threshold period of time, the neighboring device relays the received first transmission to the target device over the first channel or a different second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Junyi Li, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, John Edward Smee
  • Patent number: 10743305
    Abstract: A method for communicating messages in a channel of a wireless communication network is provided. In the channel, successive cycles, each of which including a predetermined number of successive time slots, are defined. The method may include: a first node obtaining a first list of its neighboring nodes before a first qth time slot; broadcasting a first message in the first qth time slot; receiving acknowledge information from other nodes within the network for one cycle after the first qth time slot; obtaining a second list of its neighboring nodes after the first qth time slot; and determining whether qth time slots are proper for communicating messages by the first node by checking whether all nodes on both the first and the second lists have received the first message based on the received acknowledge information, each piece of which indicates whether a corresponding node has received the first message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Harman International Industries, Incorporated
    Inventors: Guoxia Zhang, Qingshan Zhang, Zeng Yang
  • Patent number: 10742570
    Abstract: A device may receive, from the packet processing component and through an internal interface, a packet that includes a virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) interface identifier associated with a VRF interface of a virtual device. The internal interface may be associated with multiple external interfaces. The device may modify a value identifying an incoming interface via which the packet is received after receiving the packet that includes the VRF interface identifier. The modified value may be associated with the virtual device, and the modified value may allow an upper communication layer to determine that the packet is associated with the virtual device. The device may provide the packet to the upper communication layer after modifying the value identifying the incoming interface via which the packet is received to permit the upper communication layer to forward the packet to a destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Sreekanth Rupavatharam, Erin C. MacNeil, Hariprasad Shanmugam
  • Patent number: 10742384
    Abstract: A method and device for determining available communication sub-channels in an OFDM communication system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of transmitting, on at least one first sub-channel, information regarding sub-channels available for a first transmission of at least one first data packet, receiving, on at least one second sub-channel, information regarding sub-channels available for a second transmission, determining at least one set of available sub-channels based on the information regarding the first and second transmissions. In one aspect of the invention, at least one set of the determined available sub-channels is further provided to a receiving system. The information is being provided in a separate transmission, or within a data packet, or within each subsequent data packet or in selected data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Carlos Cordeiro, Seyed-Alireza Seyedi-Esfahani
  • Patent number: 10735058
    Abstract: An objective problem of the invention is to provide a mechanism for improving the performance of a radio access network. According to a first aspect of the present invention, the object is achieved by a method in a first node for adapting a multi-antenna transmission to a second node over an effective channel. The first node and the second node are comprised in a wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of obtaining at least one symbol stream and determining a precoding matrix having a block diagonal structure. The method comprises the further steps of precoding the at least one symbol stream with the determined precoding matrix, and transmitting the at least one precoded symbol stream over the effective channel to the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: George Jöngren, Bo Göransson
  • Patent number: 10728859
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a maximum transmission power per carrier in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method for determining the maximum transmission power of a terminal in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation includes checking whether a data channel transmission occurs on each of a plurality of carriers of which Power Headrooms (PHs) are reported in an extended PH Report (PHR), and determining the maximum transmission power of each carrier of the plurality of carriers in consideration of whether the data channel transmission occurs on a carrier corresponding to the data channel transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soeng Hun Kim, Sang Bum Kim, Kyeong In Jeong, Gert-Jan Van Lieshout